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Questions and epistemic stance: Some examples from Italian conversations

Ampersand, ISSN: 2215-0390, Vol: 5, Page: 29-44
2018
  • 16
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 22
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    16
    • Citation Indexes
      16
  • Captures
    22

Article Description

Through the analysis of presuppositions, question design, social action and preference organisation in short fragments of Italian question-answer sequences, this paper aims to show that (1) wh-questions, on the one hand, and alternative and polar questions (i.e., polar interrogatives, tag and declarative questions), on the other, come from two different epistemic positions: unknowing and uncertain, respectively; (2) alternative and polar questions convey different degrees of uncertainty, thus placing themselves in different points along the epistemic continuum of the uncertain position.

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